[Xastir] Xastir install on Kubuntu

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 03:57:55PM +0200, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <erik_ja at mail.tele.dk> flavor, containing:
> Tom Russo wrote:
> >
> >Check to see if there's something amiss in the .cvsrc file in your
> >home directory.  It should read something like this:
> >
> >cvs -q -z3
> >update -d -P
> >diff -u
> >
> >If you have no .cvsrc file I don't know where this error message can be
> >coming from, but you can try adding "-z3" to the command line right
> >after "cvs".
> >
> >  
> Tom!
> 
> Thanks for the reply. The problem was due to the controlcharachters for 
> cr/lf.
> 
> After it worked fine.
> 
> But I had problems with the get-maptools.sh part of Your instruction
> 
> I have sent a query to this list about it.
> 
> I couldn't see how to do this:"
> 
> "This means you have to remove the line referencing "proj-4.4.9" 
> (because we installed it via apt-get already)"

The wiki page shows what the line should look like after editing it.

> [edit 
> <http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php?title=HowTo:Ubuntu_6.10&action=edit&section=10>]
> How much shall be removed ?.
> 
> I couldn't find this:
> 
> " #WARNING WARNING WARNING
> # On any system that uses GCC 4.x as its compiler, it is probably necessary
> # to uncomment the stuff between here and the next "else".  If you see
> # an error message of the form"

In a fresh CVS checkout, it should be on around line 283.

> --snip----
> 
> I got Xastir installed with the xastir that follows Kubuntu 7.04b.
> 
> Will I benefit anything installing per Your instruction ?. Better maps or 
> so ?.

I don't really know ---  I never use pre-packaged versions of xastir, so I
have no idea what package has a recent version and what is ancient.

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